Grain-cleaner.



No. 779,240. PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905. W. G. SCHAD.

\ GRAIN CLEANER.

i APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 29, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

WILLIAM C. SOHAD, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

GRAIN-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,240, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed August 29, 1904. Serial No. 222,580.

To all whom, it nuty concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. SoHAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of WVinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an agitator for the grain in its discharge from the hopper of a grain-cleaner or fanning-mill.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a fanning-mill containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top view of the fanning-mill. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the agitator.

My improvements have been applied to a well-known construction of fanning-mill in which a hopper 1 is formed in its upper portion and having a discharge-opening 2. A cut-off slide 3 is located beneath the hopper and is adapted to close the discharge-opening 2 or partially close it, thereby regulating the flow of grain. Beneath the hopper is located a shaker-frame supporting the usual sieves. The means for imparting a shaking movement to this frame are not shown, as it forms no part of my invention, and various constructions can be employed. To the side bars 4 of the shaker-frame, on the inner face thereof, are secured ears 5, each having a stud 6 extending from their upper ends.

My improved agitator (shown at Fig. 3) comprises a bar 7 having upturned ends 8,

, each provided with a hole 9. To this bar 7 is secured a frame composed of the two ends 10 and 11, corrugated side 12, and an extension 13 to the end 10. This agitator is supported by the studs 6, extending from the ears 5, entering the holes 9 in the upturned ends 8, and the extension 13, located under the pin 14, projecting from one of the side bars which hold the corrugated side 12 of the agitator within the discharge-opening 2 of the hopper.

As the shaker-frame moves transversely of the main frame of the fanning-mill the corrugated side of the agitators will be moved in the lengthwise direction of the dischargeopening, thereby loosening the grain in the hopper and insuring a uniform flow of grain.

By disengaging the extension 13 from the pin 14: the corrugated side of the agitator can be dropped, so that the cut-off slide 3 will close the discharge-opening.

I claim as my invention In a fanning-mill, a hopper provided with a discharge-opening, a cut-off for the open ing, a'shaker-frame, and an agitator supported by the shaker-frame, the agitator comprising a bar pivotally connected to the shakerframe and a frame connected to the bar having one side corrugated having an extension adapted to engage a pin extending from the shaker-frame.

. IVILLIAM O. SOHAD. Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEHEL. 

